A talk about me, my family and the things we love to do
I am a big Iowa Hawkeye fan. I grew up 12 miles from the stadium and have been black and gold from day one. So when the @bigtennetwork tweeted about their mashups – I gave it a try. It took me about 10 minutes to do this video. I think there is a bunch more [...]
Image via CrunchBase Well, I was at first. Seriously – they have a great service in the DVD’s, but for the magic of Netflix is the Watch Instantly functionality. I mean, we don’t have cable and the computer I was using as a DVR got hit by lightning…so we’re stuck with the network website, Hulu [...]
As some of you may be aware, when I’m not writing here, I’m writing for another blog on The GigaOM Network, TheAppleBlog. TAB’s focus, as you can probably guess, is Apple products and software. Some of my latest posts there have been about the new Mac Mini, which I recently purchased for use as an [...]
Why TV Lost. “About twenty years ago people noticed computers and TV were on a collision course and started to speculate about what they’d produce when they converged. We now know the answer: computers. It’s clear now that even by using the word “convergence” we were giving TV too much credit. This won’t be convergence [...]
I read the headlines too, and yawned just like you did. But I took it one step further…I clicked. Dude, it looks good! It really does. Not sure if you can see it here – but this looks good, at regular scale and also at Full Screen. Yes – it looks good when you click [...]
I’ve been having some hallway discussions with our CEO Chuck Peters (or as I affectionalty refer to him as “Chucky P”). I think it started after I was talking too much about how cheap I thought I could rebuild a TV station. I was tossing around a number which was close to 10% of the [...]